| 单词 | prepare |
| 释义 | pre·pare transitive verb 1. a. < telling him to cut the weeds and to prepare ground for winter crops — Elizabeth M. Roberts > < prepared the guest room for their visitor > < prepared the patient for the operation > b. < would rather starve to death than eat food prepared over such fires — J.G.Frazer > c. < prepared her gradually for the shocking news > < prepared the people for a long struggle > d. < prepared himself for the legal profession — Current Biography > < preparing pupils for college entrance examinations — D.E.Smith > 2. a. < given the job of preparing the equipment for the trip > b. < prepared his strategy for the coming campaign > 3. < prepared his assignment for the next day > < the players prepared their parts — Malcolm Muggeridge > 4. a. < prepared a vaccine from live virus > < prepared the doctor's prescription > b. < unsuccessful in his attempts to prepare the metal by electrolysis — Encyc. Americana > c. < prepared and issued a vigorous manifesto — Britain Today > < directed the commission to prepare proposals for the regulation, limitation, and balanced reduction of all armed forces — Americana Annual > 5. a. b. < a prepared trill > 6. < the age of peace and prosperity that prepared the war — F.R.Leavis > intransitive verb 1. a. < he prepared for teaching > b. < the nation prepared for war > 2. archaic < are actually preparing for England — Robert Bage > Synonyms: < prepare a large meal > < prepare the ground for spring crops > < prepare a patient for an operation > < prepare oneself for the ministry > < preparing a speech on the subject > < I had intended, when the time came, to prepare a second edition of this book — T.S.Eliot > fit may indicate equipping and repairing; it may apply to the process of training and gradually remedying deficiencies and acquiring skills, crafts, accomplishments, attitudes for some specific activity or situation < about 60 destroyers fitted with echo-ranging gear — J.P.Baxter b. 1893 > < I had fitted myself to do everything, from sweeping out to writing the editorials and keeping the bank account — W.A.White > < the soldier's efforts to fit himself into the new world made possible by his sweat and blood — Dixon Wecter > < parents whose duty it is to fit children for carrying on life — Herbert Spencer > qualify may imply formal fulfillment of requirements or definite experience or accomplishment demonstrating fitness < a qualified accountant > < qualified to practice medicine > < combined with a subsequent three years of seminary training, it qualifies graduates to enter into the ministry of the church — American Guide Series: Michigan > < teams winning in the qualifying rounds > condition may indicate the steady, cumulative course or process of bringing into a certain condition, often a careful procedure for achieving a certain desired condition < compulsory education, the press, the cinema, and the wireless are weapons possibly even stronger than the atom bomb, and the art of using them for the conditioning of men's minds and characters is much enhanced by modern developments in psychology and sociology — Walter Moberly > < these early circumstances and experiences profoundly conditioned him — Carl Van Doren > < the religious emotion to which I had been conditioned in my childhood — R.M.Lovett > ready may apply to quick preliminary equipping, ordering, and preparing immediately before entering into some activity or function < the whole town took part in helping to ready the outdoor theater — Marguerite Johnson > < under this great silvery dome they were readying the 200-inch eye for its night's vigil on the universe — G.W.Gray b. 1886 > < the expedition readied itself during the summer at the little Dutch town of Helvoet Sluys — Oscar Handlin > • - prepare the way |
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